Method and a device to detect and manage non legitimate use or theft of a mobile computerized device

ABSTRACT

A method, a device and a system are provided for mobile devices theft protection and for avoiding none legitimate and misuse of the devices. It is based on a human 3D device holding hand movement, while creating a bio-authentication event of a user of the mobile device. In case of authentication failure it activates various types of alarms locally on the device, and/or deactivating or blocking one or more of the device operational functions, like communication or access to certain functions, stored data, or applications and it transmits alarms and illegitimate user images via text and image messages to remote locations. In other cases it generates and transmits also device&#39;s status and location to remote user&#39;s piers nearby, or to a monitoring center, all based on the user&#39;s device authentication failure and following activated action items.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patentapplication No. 62/022,705 filed on 10 Jul. 2014 and incorporated byreference as if set forth herein.

FIELD AND BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

The present invention relates to mobile electronic devices nonlegitimate use, theft or loss protection and in particular to methods, adevice configuration and a system for the user's bio authentication andfor blocking of any non-legitimate identified user of a mobileelectronic device and then generating alarms, wherein unlocking andactivating the devise, or locking selected security management functionsof the electronic device, are all based on the user's bio authenticationprocess results.

BACKGROUND

Portable wireless communication equipment, including smart mobiletelephones, portable data assistants (PDAs), Notepads, Notebooks andother mobile electronic devices have been available for the common usersfor several years.

It has been recognized that the high portability of modern portablewireless communication equipment, put such devices at a heightened riskfor loss or more to it to theft. More specifically, because such devicesare carried through most of the daily activities hours by a person, theyare easily lost and easily stolen. Further, such loss or theft put suchdevices at risk of unauthorized use of the device's communicationservices, the loss of a costly personal devise containing a largevariety of personal information important to its user, and more to itunauthorized access by a hostile intruder to sensitive user's datastored on the device.

To reduce the risk of unauthorized use of the device's communicationservices and/or unauthorized access to stored data, most portablecommunication devices includes a password protection system. A typicalpassword protection system is implemented by disabling the keypad, orthe telephone circuits, and/or the data applications, unless and untilthe user enters an applicable unlock code.

Generally the password/unlock code is in the form of alpha numeric textwhich may be entered using the keypad of the mobile electronic device.There exist several challenges with such alphanumeric password/unlockcode protection systems.

First, the protection provided by a password only exists so long as thepassword is not compromised. Many people tend to use passwords that areeasily guessed, write their passwords on paper, and otherwise compromisethe integrity of their passwords.

Second, user entry of a password (and the associated key strokes neededto reach the password entry prompt and active the electronic deviceafter password entry) can be time consuming and aggravating—to the pointwhere many people select the option of disabling the password protectionof the mobile electronic device.

An alternative system used to password protect a mobile telephone isdisclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,351,634 to Shin. The system of Shin isuseful for a mobile telephone that includes a touch screen. A registeredsecret symbol is used as the password. The secret symbol comprises astroke number value responsive to the existence of pressure applied tothe touch screen and X/Y coordinate values for each stroke. Inoperation, a user inputs a symbol using the pressure sensitive touchscreen to draw the various strokes of the secret symbol. The devicedetermines whether the input symbol matches the registered secret symboland unlocks the telephone if the character stroke number value and theX/Y coordinate value signals match that of the secret password symbol.Shin teaches that the secret password symbol can be a character, asignature, a numeral, or a combination thereof.

One challenge with the system of Shin is that it requires that themobile telephone have a touch sensitive display for free form entry ofthe symbol. Most mobile telephones do not include a touch sensitivedisplay—making the technology inappropriate for such devices. A secondchallenge of the system of Shin is that so long as someone can duplicatethe secret password symbol, whether by tracing or careful drawing on thetouch screen, such person has access to the mobile telephone. Statedanother way, authentication of the user is based on the user being ableto duplicate the strokes and shape of the secret password symbol.

In a completely separate field of technology, character recognition hasbeen proposed for use as a means for user input of character data into acomputer system. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,188,392 to O'Connordiscloses an electronic pen device that is coupled to a computer systemby an RF transmitter or a batch communication docking station. Theelectronic pen device includes a combination of a pressure sensitive tip(for detecting contact with a surface) and accelerometers for detectingmovement of the electronic pen device while in contact with the surface.Data from the accelerometers and the pressure sensitive tip are used torecognize each of a sequence of characters input by the user.

While it may be possible to use the electronic pen device of O'Connorwith a mobile telephone, such a system would include several drawbacks.First, such a system would be relatively expensive compared to atraditional mobile telephone or even the mobile telephone of Shin. Sucha system would require the need for separate processing systems for boththe mobile telephone and the pen, separate batteries, complimentarycommunication systems (whether by RF or docking station), and otherduplicate components. Secondly, use of a discrete external electronicpen with a mobile telephone would be cumbersome at best for a user. Theuser would need to handle and maintain two separate devices.

The aim of a biometric system is the realization of theidentification/authentication of people using some biologicalcharacteristic or physically measured behavior of the individual, in asafe and non-invasive way. The problem of identification andauthentication of people is very old and has always tried to solved withdifferent media: sealed, titles, nameplates, etc. Today this is notenough and you need to introduce new authentication and identificationtechniques to ensure that a person is who they say they are in manycontexts.

There are many biometric techniques that try to recognize a person bytheir physical characteristics (iris, face morphology, fingerprint,voice recognition, etc.) or their behavior (gait, manner of writing,online signature, etc.). It is vital in this document, by itssimilarity, to implement signature by a biometric technique online. Manyworks have been developed to improve this technique. They explain thebasis for online signature verification. In this type of testing, it iscompared while drawing on the firm equals one stored, and that the wayto make such signature matches what was done by the registered user. Tothis end, various parameters are measured when making a signature, suchas writing speed, pressure or angle of the pen at each point in timewhen the signature is done, among other features. These signatures canbe performed in a special screen that collects and analyzes allnecessary signals for analysis or on paper if the pen with which thefirm is able to measure the signals described above and send them to aserver where you perform the analysis and the signature verification.

In patent MX2007007539 collects a system implementing the biometricauthentication using an electronic signature. This system includes aninterface to a computer capable of storing the movement of a cursor on acomputer screen and compared with already stored signature patterns.

The first object of the present invention relates to performing a highlyreliable authentication in a mobile device. Today, there are manyapplications that can be accessed from a mobile terminal where it isnecessary to identify the user. For years entrusted all security onmobile devices to type a secret key that the user knew. However, thesekeys can be easily forgotten, transferred, lost or even counterfeit, sothat user authentication is compromised.

According to this, the patent WO2008111012 comes to performing anauthentication system for mobile devices that includes a biometricscanner to gather data and send them to a server that will perform theanalysis and testing necessary patterns. The patent describes a mobileidentification device associated with an identification andauthentication system. The device can collect biometric data from a userand using a processor compare biometric data stored by the legitimateuser and give access to a system if the comparison is successful. Usinga wireless connection, the processor may transmit the identificationinformation associated with another terminal, such as a mobile phone.For this it is necessary that the authentication server where thecomparison is made to access a database that stores the biometric datasuch as the identification of each mobile device.

Focusing on the biometric technique to authenticate a user with a mobiledevice is found in US2006286969 and in US2008005575.

In US2006286969 it is proposed to have a remote authentication scheme toauthenticate users from a mobile device. The biometric technique used isthe voice recognition. The system consists of a mobile phone to sendvoice samples of an authentication device that connects to a databasethat stores the identities of mobile phones and voice pattern associatedwith that phone to make a comparison and check the user is talking onthe phone is registered in the system.

US2008005575 proposes a method and apparatus for authenticating a useron a mobile phone. While the user holds the phone to his ear, amicrophone emits a signal near the user's ear and the speaker phone isable to measure the ear's response to this signal. A processor analyzesthe response signal and converts it into a signature that uniquelyidentifies each person and can be used to authenticate.

The object of the present invention proposes the creation of a humanmovement or gesture pattern with mobile device that identifies a user,taking into account that this gesture will only be known by the user andalso that physical characteristics, it will perform differently to otherpeople who might try to repeat the gesture.

Various techniques are known as gesture recognition, in which a systemis able to detect when a user makes a certain known gesture. Some ofthese techniques known applications use gesture recognition to check ifthe nursing home patients are taking food from dinner. They use videosignals dining and recognition techniques gestures of head and arms,analyzed using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Preferably studies areperformed using HMMs to recognize hand gestures made correspondingArabic numerals 0 through 9.

Also found US2009103780 and WO2009006173 patents related to methods torecognize standard gestures. Patent US2009103780 includes a method forcollecting the gestures produced by hand, based on light hand at firstby the palm and the back, to get your silhouette associated. Fromvarious lighting infrared proposes a method for collecting various handmovements and identifying a series of gestures previously stored in adatabase of gestures obtained in the same manner.

WO2009006173 patent describes a method for detecting responseelectronically gesture of a user is listening to a speaker using amobile device. When performing a specific gesture, the speakercommunicates an audible or visual display.

Related to the idea of recognition of a person by making a gesture foundthe patent WO2007134433. It develops a method to authenticate a userwhen performing an action that manual manipulation of a device such as amouse. Authentication is to obtain the gesture with the mouse by theuser when chasing a target and compare it to the stored pattern of theuser when that objective has been pursued previously.

Focusing technical status to the present invention, it should be notedthat performing gestures to biometrically authenticate a person on amobile device using gestures measured with an accelerometer is novel.

Regarding the use of accelerometers in mobile devices there US2005226468authentication systems proposed to authenticate the user based oncertain biometric sensors must be connected to the mobile device, andverifies that the authentication was successful based on a accelerometerthat collects data on how to get the user's device, ensuring it is not amachine trying to cheat the system.

Also, in US2009030350 discloses a method and a system for analyzingpatterns gaits of a subject by measuring the acceleration of the head inthe vertical direction while walking. It uses an accelerometer that isplaced on the user's head. The analysis includes the creation of asignature from the acceleration data when user walk.

In the present invention also proposes the use of the patterns obtainedby realizing the user gesture for generation or release of acryptographic key. In this connection, patents found DE102005010698 andKR749380-B1.

DE102005010698 describes the construction of a cryptographic key forsecure communication independent from the fingerprint. It proposes touse that key to communication demand TV with pay per view applications,child protection or age verification.

KR749380-B1 describes a method to generate a key from a biometriccharacteristic that does not change with time as the iris. The biometricinformation is received and preprocessed, extracted some values andassociated cryptographic key is obtained by grouping the values. Theclustering error is corrected using a block of Reed-Solomon code. Theobtained key can be applied to any cryptographic system.

Consequently, it is desirable to have a highly reliable biometricrecognition device, as described in the present invention, to avoid thedrawbacks existing in the previous methods, apparatuses and systems asof the present state of the art. The present invention solution isintended to perform a biometric authentication which brings and combinestogether the two general characteristics of biometric authentication:the physical characteristics and behavior.

Therefore there is also a need in the art to have a mobile communicationdevice that includes modules and methods for high reliability and easyto use way of authenticating a user of the mobile device, and locking orunlocking its communication functions and data storage capabilities in acase of negative or a positive authentication, that does not suffer fromthe disadvantages of traditional character based password protectionsystems and the disadvantages of systems and solutions such as in Shin'sor O'Connor's.

Regarding to terminology used in this document portable communicationequipment, also referred to herein as a “mobile radio terminal”,includes all equipment such as mobile phones, pagers, communicators,Notepads Notebooks and alike, e.g., electronic organizers, personaldigital assistants (PDAs), smart phones or the like. It should also beappreciated that many of the elements discussed in this specification,whether referred to as a “system” a “module” a “circuit” or similar, maybe implemented in hardware (circuits), or a processor executing softwarecode, or a combination of a hardware circuit and a processor executingcode. As such, the term circuit as used throughout this specification isintended to encompass a hardware circuit (whether discrete elements oran integrated circuit block), a processor executing code, or acombination of a hardware circuit and a processor executing code, orother combinations of the above known to those skilled in the art.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The following embodiments and aspects thereof are described andillustrated in conjunction with devices and methods, which are meant tobe exemplary and illustrative, not limiting in scope. In variousembodiments, one or more of the above-described limitations and emergingmodern user's growing mobile devices daily secured use needs have beensolved, reduced or eliminated, while other embodiments are directed toother advantageous or improvements.

The core of the present invention is an advanced and highly reliable newapproach to protecting modern mobile devices against theft and inhelping to allocate mobile devices in case of a loss. The inventiondevice has an integrated highly reliable authentication module analyzingthe user's hand pattern movement when uplifting the mobile device fromits rest position.

A first aspect of the present invention comprises a mobile electronicdevice which enables a user to authenticate himself through the mobileelectronic device and then enables a function of the mobile electronicdevice to differentiate between the authenticated legitimate user and anone authenticated none legitimate user by analyzing and detecting theuser's personal unique and personalized movement sequence, while movingthe mobile electronic device from its rest position.

The mobile electronic device comprises a 3D acceleration measurementmodule generating an acceleration signal representing the user handmotion in space while holding and uplifting the mobile electronicdevice. A lock/unlock circuit enables operation of at least one functionof the mobile electronic device in response to the measured 3Dacceleration signal indicating that the user holding the mobile devisehand motion pattern deviates from pre-recorded reference original ownershand motion uplifting movement signal data, while holding and upliftingthe mobile devise by more than a predetermined threshold.

The lock/unlock circuit may further comprise an integration module andan executable authentication process module. The integration moduleintegrates the acceleration signal with respect to time to generate avelocity signal and a displacement signal. The executable authenticationprocess: i) compares a representation of the displacement signal and thevelocity signal, with or without the acceleration measured signal, tothe reference motion data. The reference motion data comprisingreference displacement data and velocity data, with or without theacceleration measured signal data ; and ii) enables operation of atleast one function of the mobile electronic device if the representationof the displacement signal and the velocity signal and the accelerationsignal data deviate from the reference displacement data and velocitydata and the measured acceleration data by more than a predeterminedthreshold. The reference motion data may also represents the deviselegitimate users simple three dimensional gesture movements in space andthe user motion represents the devise user moving the electronic devicein the same simple three dimensional gesture.

The acceleration module may include at least two acceleration detectorsand preferably three orthogonal linear acceleration detectors fordetecting acceleration within a two dimensional plane or a threedimensional space. As such, the velocity signal and the displacementsignal represent velocity and displacement of the mobile electronicdevice within the two dimensional plane or three dimensional space.

The process of comparing a representation of the displacement signal andthe velocity signal to reference displacement data and velocity data mayinclude: i) determining a sequential set of displacement coordinatesvalues within the two dimensional plane or three dimensional space fromthe displacement signal, while the sequential set of displacementcoordinate values representing sequential measured positions of theacceleration module within the two dimensional plane or threedimensional space at sequential time increments; ii) comparing thesequential set of displacement coordinates values to a reference set ofcoordinates values and determining that a gesture 3D movement and shapedoes not match, if the sequential set of displacement coordinate valuesdeviates from the reference set of coordinate values by no more than apredetermined threshold; iii) determining a sequential set of velocityvector values within the two dimensional plane or three dimensionalspace from the velocity signal, the sequential set of velocity vectorvalues representing a speed component and a direction component at eachof the sequential set of displacement coordinates; iv) comparing thesequential set of velocity vector values to reference velocity vectorvalues and determining that a velocity model matches if the sequentialset of velocity vector values deviates from the reference velocityvector values by no more than a predetermined threshold; and iv)generating the indication of user authentication only if the movementshape and the velocity model match within a predefined coordinatesvalues difference.

A second aspect of the present invention is to provide a method ofenabling a theft and/or loss protection function of a mobile electronicdevice. The method comprises: i) prompting a user to move the mobiledevice from a rest position using the housing of the mobile electronicdevice; ii) detecting acceleration of the housing of the mobileelectronic device within at least two dimensions (e.g. within a twodimensional plane or a three dimensional space) and iii) generating anacceleration signal representing the user hand gesture while upliftingthe mobile devise; and iv) enabling lock or unlock of at least onefunction of the mobile electronic device in response to the accelerationsignal indicating that the present user devise uplifting hand motiondeviates from reference motion data by more than a predeterminedthreshold.

Enabling operation of a function of the mobile electronic device maycomprise: i) integrating the acceleration signals with respect to timeto generate a velocity signal and a displacement signal; ii) comparing arepresentation of the displacement signal and the velocity signal to thereference motion data, the reference motion data comprising referencedisplacement data and velocity data; and iii) enabling operation of atleast one function of the mobile electronic device if the representationof the displacement signal and the velocity signal deviate from thereference displacement data and velocity data by more than apredetermined threshold. The reference motion data may represents auser's typical movement pattern and the user motion represents the usermoving the mobile electronic device in a typical movement from thedevise rest position motion.

The method may further comprise driving an integration module tointegrate the acceleration signal with respect to time to generate avelocity signal and a displacement signal. The representation of theacceleration signal may comprises a representation of the velocitysignal and the displacement signal,

According to the present invention, there is also provided highlysecured against theft and loss mobile electronic device comprising: a. athree dimensional acceleration sensor module generating a XYZcoordinates based acceleration measured signal representing a user's 3Dhand motion sampled data sequence in space while lifting from astationary position and holding said mobile electronic device;

b. an electronic software activated lock/unlock circuit for enablingoperation of one or more alarm and emergency functions and forinhibiting voice communication functions of said mobile electronicdevice in response to said measured acceleration time based 3D signalsequence; and c. wherein said lock/unlock activated alarm triggered setof functions activation and operation is indicating that said usersamples data sequence of 3D motion while lifting and holding saiddevice, when compared to a similar reference prerecorded and stored setof sampled data of a three dimensional user's hand motion pattern inspace made by said devise legitimate user, while lifting said devicefrom a stationary position, deviates from each other by more than apredetermined threshold.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherembodiment of highly secured against theft and loss mobile electronicdevice further comprising; d. an additional tilt sensor modulegenerating a three dimensional tilt angles sampled signal vectorrepresenting said devise up-lifting and said user's holding hand 3Dangular motion in space; and e. wherein said three dimensional XYZcoordinated acceleration signal vector results are fused together usinga continuously learning and changing weighted factor fusion algorithm,for optimal fusing together with said measured three dimensional tiltangles sampled signal vector results, to enable improved and moreprecise analysis and identification of the exact typical personalcharacteristic movement of said user holding said electronic devise,thus creating a highly reliable user's authentication mechanism todecide while comparing to a similar reference prerecorded fused set ofsaid two kinds of sampled user's hand motion characterizing data, if toactivate said lock/unlock circuit for enabling operation of said one ormore emergency functions of the mobile electronic device.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device wherein the lock/unlock circuit further comprises anintegration module for integrating said measured acceleration signalwith respect to time to generate a velocity signal and a displacementsignal; and an executable authentication process for comparing arepresentation of the 3D displacement signal and the 3D velocity signalto the reference pre-recorded motion data, said reference motion datacomprising reference 3D displacement data and reference 3D velocity datain addition to said acceleration reference data and enabling operationof the comparison and analysis based user's authentication function ofthe mobile electronic device if the representation of the displacementsignal and the velocity signal and the acceleration signal data deviatefrom the reference displacement set of pre-recorded data and velocityset of prerecorded data and acceleration signal set of prerecorded databy more than a predetermined threshold.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the lock/unlock circuit further comprises adata processing module for creating the derivative of the 3D tiltsignals with respect to time to generate an angular velocity signal anda an angular acceleration signal of said mobile devise; and furtherexecuting an authentication process for comparing under a continuouslylearning weighted factors fusion algorithm the combined weightedrepresentation of the 3D displacement signal, the 3D velocity signal,said 3D acceleration data, said 3D angular data, together with the 3Dangular speed signal and the 3D angular acceleration data and to compareit to the reference pre-recorded motion data, the reference motion datacomprising reference 3D displacement data, a reference 3D velocity datasaid 3D acceleration data, together with said reference 3D angular data,a reference 3D angular speed data and a 3D angular acceleration data;and g. then further enabling operation of the lock/unlock function ofthe mobile electronic device if the representation of the 3Ddisplacement signal, the 3D velocity signal, fused with the 3D angularspeed signal and the 3D angular acceleration signal deviate from saidreference motion data by more than a predetermined threshold.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein said reference motion data represents thedevice user's normal sampled and continuously averaged pre-recorded 3Dup-lift movement pattern of said mobile devise from its stationaryposition on a resting surface or from a continuous and repetitivemovement pattern when the electronic mobile devise is carried on auser's body, or when it is uplifted from a carrying bag and the usermotion represent the user momentary uplifting 3D movement pattern ofsaid electronic device from its present resting surface, or from itspresent dynamic position continuous and repetitive movement pattern,when said device is carried on a user's body, or when it is upliftedfrom a carrying bag.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the mobile device: further comprising: a. adedicated secured soft key switch for user's activation/deactivationcontrol of said mobile electronic device electronic software which incase of a false user's authentication activates a lock/unlock alarmcircuit enabling said operation of one or more emergency functions ofthe mobile electronic device; b. user intervention free self-triggeredactivation of the lock/unlock function ready for use is enabled onlyafter an N user defined minutes of said mobile device being in astationary position status or after an M user defined minutes saiddevise is carried in a continuous steady movement sequence of saidmobile device; c. a display unit for indicating status of the mobileelectronic device and display of data; and wherein the a movementactivated emergency alarm function of said mobile electronic deviceenabled by said lock/unlock circuit comprises at least one functionselected from a group of functions consisting of at least: i) setting upa highly audible audio alarm through said electronic device havingintegrated audio signals generation capabilities; and ii) generating adisplay function of said display unit indicating and alarming byflashing and fixed combination of text, graphics and icons the liftingand moving event of said device by an illegal non registered user.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the lock circuit comprises: an integrationmodule for integrating the acceleration signal with respect to time togenerate a velocity signal and a displacement signal; and an executableauthentication process for: comparing a representation of at least oneof said uplifted mobile device measured signals group, including thedisplacement signal, the velocity signal and the acceleration signal tothe reference motion data, the reference motion data stored on saiduplifted mobile devise memory comprising at least one of the group ofreference movement data including the displacement signal, the velocitysignal and the acceleration signal motion data; and enabling operationof the function of the mobile electronic device if the representationthe measured signals group deviates from the reference stored signalgroup by no more than a predetermined threshold.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the mobile device is further comprising: a. awireless transmission system for the exchange of wireless data signalsbetween said devise and a remote system; b. a software operated selftriggered switch for a suspected theft event generated control signal ofsaid mobile electronic device preparing and sending said device userdata and said device momentary location to said remote system; c. adisplay unit for indicating status of the mobile electronic device anddisplay of data received from said remote system; and d. wherein thefunction of said mobile electronic device enabled by the activation ofsaid lock/unlock circuit comprises at least an alarm, said mobile devisemomentary geographical location and emergency generation datatransmitted through a wireless data

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein, further comprising; e. a software modulecontaining a registered list of said devise user close group of personsand their direct access communication data; and f. said software modulesending said group of persons alert messages including said mobiledevise momentary location, in case of an emergency case, such as whensaid devise senses that a suspected theft event has occurred.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein, further comprising a software moduleoperating automatically said device integrated camera module and itslighting flash modules facing up when said devise is lifted from itsresting position by a non-authenticated user and sending said nonauthenticated user pictures in a serial sequence continuously to saidremote system and to said list of phones of said close persons. Sendingsaid close friends alert messages including said suspected theft devisemomentary location, its theft alert message and said devise continuoussequence of pictures, in case of an emergency case like said devisetheft has occurred.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the reference motion data that represents thedevice legitimate user upon said device initial enlisting processincludes said device recorded uplifting 3D sampled motion pattern andthe user motion represents the present user moving the electronic devicein an uplifting typical motion.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the mobile devise is operating as a user'sauthentication client to a remote service provider system, said mobileelectronic device further comprising: a. a wireless transmission systemexchanging wireless data signals with said remote service providersystem; b. an acceleration module generating an acceleration signalrepresenting user motion of the mobile electronic device; and c. anauthentication system comprising: an executable authentication processfor receiving a authentication call generated by the remote serviceprovider system and transmitted to the mobile electronic device viawireless signal; and returning a representation of the accelerationsignal to the remote service provider system.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the mobile devise is further comprising anintegration module for integrating the acceleration signal with respectto time to generate said mobile device velocity signal and an associateddisplacement signal; and the representation of the acceleration signalcomprises a representation of the velocity signal and the displacementsignal.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the devise is further comprising a seconddedicated secured soft key switch for user's deactivation control ofsaid mobile electronic device electronic already activated lock/unlockalarm circuit enabling one or more emergency functions of said mobileelectronic device, wherein activating said second soft key enables theuser to select one of the following alarm deactivation functions: i.said user is requested to feed in his pre-registered user name andpassword into displayed blank spaces appearing in said device screenonce said second soft key is activated by said user; and ii. a voicedata processing module is activated by said second soft key activationon said mobile device, wherein at that stage a human voice activatedquestion is played to the user and then waiting to be vocally shortlyresponded by said legitimate user voice, wherein said activated voicequestion is randomly selected from a set on N user's personal dataquestions stored in said mobile device memory together with theassociated expected user

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein, further comprising; d. a Bluetoothtransceiver data communication module integrated in said mobileelectronic devise; e. a second RF radiation level sensitive Bluetoothmobile transceiver pocket size sensor device, incased in a compactpackage and normally connected to said user set of private access anddoor locks key holder; and f. wherein said second device is activatingsaid lock/unlock alarm triggered set of functions in said first mobiledevise, whenever the communication distance between said first and saidsecond devise is larger than a pre-defined distance of m meters whilethe associated detected RF communication signal between said first andsecond devise if lower than a predefined threshold.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the second RF radiation level sensitivesensor device is a passive RFID sensor back reflecting modulated energycoming from said first mobile devise RF transmitter and reflected backto said first mobile devise RF receiver.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the mobile devise further comprising a tilttriggered sensitive module, wherein said electronic software activatedlock/unlock circuit for enabling operation of one or more alarm andemergency functions is operating an audio location indication sound insaid mobile devise whenever said mobile devise in a hand carried bag orbriefcase being shaken by said user in purpose along the XY planewithout a significant uplifting lifting movement along the Z axis toenable indication that said mobile devise is in sad hand bag without theneed to open and check said bag content.

According to the present invention, there is also provided anotherpreferred embodiment of a highly secured against theft and loss mobileelectronic device, wherein the mobile devisees further comprising ananti-theft reference marker visible on an external portion of thehousing of said mobile electronic device, said reference markerindicating and warning potential thieves that said mobile electronicdevice has a built in anti-theft module and including a phone number tocall by the finder, in case of said mobile devise loss.

According to the present invention, there is provided a preferredembodiment of a highly secured method of using a protected against theftand loss mobile electronic device according to the present invention,wherein the invention preferred embodiment method is enabling a theftdeterrent or a loss case protection function for a mobile electronicdevice, the method comprising: a. prompting a user to register his phonein an anti-theft and loss avoidance application while said useruplifting his mobile device and holding the housing of said mobileelectronic device and recording said lifting movement patterncharacteristics; b. detecting acceleration pattern of said mobileelectronic device within three dimensions and generating and recordingin said devise an acceleration signal samples data representing the userhand movements uplifting his mobile device from a platform; c. enablingoperation of a theft warn or a misuse alarm functions of said mobileelectronic device in response to the measured acceleration signalindicating that the present user motion deviates from said recordedreference motion data stored on said mobile device by more than apredetermined threshold, wherein enabling further operation of afunction of the mobile electronic device comprises: d. integrating saidacceleration signal with respect to time to generate a velocity signaland a displacement signal; comparing a representation of thedisplacement signal and the velocity signal to the reference motion datastored in the memory of said mobile device, the reference motion dataalso comprising reference integrated displacement data and velocitydata; and e. enabling operation of said theft deterrent or a loss caseprotection function of said mobile electronic device if therepresentation of the displacement signal and the velocity signaldeviates from said reference displacement data and velocity data by nomore than a predetermined threshold.

According to the present invention, there is provided another preferredembodiment of a highly secured method of using a protected against theftand loss mobile electronic device according to the present invention,wherein the reference motion data represents a pre-recorded mobiledevice owner sampled hand motional data while said devise owneruplifting his device with a simple normal or a simple 3D user createdhand movement pattern and the user motion represents a user upliftingsaid electronic device in a tracked and sampled motion.

According to the present invention, there is provided another preferredembodiment of a highly secured method of using a protected against theftand loss mobile electronic device, operating the portable electronicdevice as a user authentication platform for anti-theft protection whilecommunicating with a remote service provider system, comprising: a.transmitting via wireless signal, an authentication call registrationrequest generated by said electronic device legitimate owner operating a3D acceleration measurement based module to generate a measured andfurther calculated acceleration, speed and displacement signal basedsampled data set representing said owner uplifting natural orself-created uplifting motion of the mobile electronic device; b.sending via wireless signal transmission to said remote service providersystem, a false authentication alarm signal created by therepresentation of the comparison at least two out of the measured deviceuplifting acceleration, speed and displacement set of signals whilecomparing it to at least two of a pre-recorded uplifting set of sampleddata containing the acceleration, speed and displacement referencesampled signal data made by said device legitimate owner, which isstored in said device; and c. when said service provider receives saidwireless message containing said false authentication alarm signal fromsaid electronic device it sends theft alarm notification via shortmessage signal (SMS) to a prerecorded set of phone numbers stored atsaid service provider memory containing a preferred relatives and friendlist of said device legitimate owner.

According to the present invention, there is provided another preferredembodiment of a highly secured method of using a protected against theftand loss of a mobile electronic device according to the presentinvention, further comprising: driving an integration module in themobile devise to integrate the measured acceleration signal with respectto time to generate a velocity signal and a displacement signal; andthen said representation of the acceleration signal comprises arepresentation of the velocity signal and the displacement signal.

According to the present invention, there is provided another preferredembodiment of a highly secured method of using a protected against theftand loss of a mobile electronic device, further comprising: d. upon auser's false authentication event, automatically initiating andprocessing upon the non-authenticated user a set photography and facerecognition functions through said mobile devise integrated electroniccamera module and integrated processor and sending the processed nonauthenticated user photography processed data to a central remoteservice provider system for recoding and further theft related datamanagement requirements; and e. avoiding sending such alarm to saidremote service provider system if said face recognition function resultsindicate a high match to a stored face authentication data out of saiddevice legitimate owner and of additional close family authenticatingfaces data bank, prerecorded and stored on said devise.

Unless otherwise defined, all technical and/or scientific terms usedherein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinaryskill in the art to which the invention pertains. Although methods andsystems similar or equivalent to those described herein can be used inthe practice or testing of embodiments of the invention, exemplarymethods and/or systems are described below. In case of conflict, thepatent specification, including definitions, will control. In addition,the materials, methods, systems and examples herein are illustrativeonly and are not intended to be necessarily limiting.

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Some embodiments of the invention are herein described, by way ofexample only, with reference to the accompanying drawings. With specificreference now to the drawings in detail, it is stressed that theparticulars shown are by way of example and for purposes of illustrativediscussion of embodiments of the invention. In this regard, thedescription taken with the drawings makes apparent to those skilled inthe art how embodiments of the invention may be practiced.

FIG. 1 is an illustration of a schematic block diagram of one possibleaspect of the mobile electronic device configuration according to thepresent invention that includes a microprocessor module, a displaymodule, an authentication module, an acceleration detectors module, atilt detectors module, an audio module, a camera and image processingmodule, an RF communication module and a plurality of storage modules.

FIG. 2 is a schematic illustration of a state machine in the form of aflowchart, wherein the flowchart is representing the initials stages ofthe devise application mode preparation and its sensors activationevents, prior to the initiation of the authentication process, possiblyfollowed by the activation of an alarm by the present invention mobiledevise, according to one possible embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of a state machine in the form of aflowchart, wherein the flowchart is representing the post rest stages ofthe devise re-movement sensing followed by the devise user'sauthentication execution, to be then followed in case of an illegitimateuser, by the activation of an alarm by the present invention mobiledevise, according to one possible embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 4 is a schematic illustration of a state machine in the form of aflowchart, wherein the flowchart is representing the execution events inthe t devise user's negative authentication alarm activated mode of thepresent invention mobile devise, executable during the devise upliftingtriggered movement analysis process, according to yet another embodimentof the present invention, wherein two types of movement sensors outputmeasured data sources are fused together under a learning algorithm tocreate higher reliability and precision of the devise and the holdinguser's hand 3D movement pattern in space to be further analyzed by thedevise in the following user authentication process.

FIG. 5. is a schematic illustration of a state machine in the form of aflowchart wherein the flowchart is representing the execution of eventsin the present devise user non authentication alarm activated mode ofthe present invention mobile devise, to be triggered under an upliftingtriggering process, according to yet another embodiment of the presentinvention, wherein one type of a 3D movement sensing sensors moduleoutput measured data is fused together under an authentication algorithmwith the measured and calculated data output of the devise present userface recognition software module, required to create higher reliabilityand quality of the present user authentication process.

FIG. 6. is a schematic illustration of one possible embodiment of thepresent invention mobile devices security management system, combiningalso demonstrating the protected device several operational securitystatus checks and authentication stages and states in the form of aflowchart, wherein the flowchart part is representing the execution ofevents in the case of the devise user non authentication alarm followedby the immediate communication that the alarm event creates with theremote security monitoring center, which in this embodiment is supportedby the device cellular service provider communication system.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention, in some embodiments thereof, relates to mobiledevices antitheft and loss security related solutions and, moreparticularly, but not exclusively, to methods, a device and a system tomanage and conduct mobile devices bio authentication and execution ofvarious alarms and notifications in case of a non-legitimate userauthentication failure.

Before explaining some embodiments of the invention in details, it is tobe understood that the invention is not necessarily limited in itsapplication to the details of construction and the arrangement of thecomponents and/or methods set forth in the following description and/orillustrated in the drawings and/or the Examples. The invention iscapable of other embodiments or of being practiced or carried out invarious ways.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, aspects of the presentinvention may be embodied as a devise, a system, a method or computerprogram product. Accordingly, aspects of the present invention may takethe form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely softwareembodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.) oran embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may allgenerally be referred to herein as a “circuit,” “module” or “system.”Furthermore, aspects of the present invention may take the form of acomputer program product embodied in one or more computer readablemedium(s) having computer readable program code embodied thereon.

Any combination of one or more computer readable medium(s) may beutilized. The computer readable medium may be a computer readable signalmedium or a computer readable storage medium. A computer readablestorage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic,magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system,apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. Morespecific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer readablestorage medium would include the following: an electrical connectionhaving one or more wires, a hard disk, a random access solid statememory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmableread-only memory (EPROM or Flash Memory), an optical fiber, an opticalstorage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combinationof the foregoing. In the context of this document, a computer readablestorage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store aprogram for use by or in connection with an instruction executionsystem, apparatus, or device.

A computer readable signal medium may include a propagated data signalwith computer readable program code embodied therein, for example, inbaseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated signal may takeany of a variety of forms, including, but not limited to electronic,electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof. Acomputer readable signal medium may be any computer readable medium thatis not a computer readable storage medium and that can communicate,propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with aninstruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

Program code embodied on a computer readable medium may be transmittedusing any appropriate medium, including but not limited to wireless,wire-line, optical fiber cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination ofthe foregoing.

Computer program code for carrying out operations for aspects of thepresent invention may be written in any combination of one or moreprogramming languages, including an object oriented programming languagesuch as Java, Smalltalk, C++ or the like and conventional proceduralprogramming languages, such as the “C” programming language or similarprogramming languages. The program code may execute entirely on theuser's smartphone, partly on the user's smartphone, as a stand-alonesoftware package, partly on the user's smartphone and partly on a remotecomputer, or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latterscenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's mobiledevice through any type of network, or the connection may be made to anexternal computer (for example, through the Internet using an InternetService Provider, or through a cellular service provider).

Aspects of the present invention are described below with reference toflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of devices, methods,systems and computer program products according to embodiments of theinvention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchartillustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in theflowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented bycomputer program instructions. These computer program instructions maybe provided to a processor of a smartphone, a notepad, a laptop, aspecial purpose computer, or other programmable data processingapparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, whichexecute via the processor of the computer or other programmable dataprocessing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/actsspecified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computerreadable medium that can direct a computer, other programmable dataprocessing apparatus, or other devices to function in a particularmanner, such that the instructions stored in the computer readablemedium produce an article of manufacture including instructions whichimplement the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or blockdiagram block or blocks.

The computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a smartphone amobile or portable computerized device, other programmable dataprocessing apparatus, or other devices to cause a series of operationalsteps to be performed on the computer, other programmable apparatus orother devices to produce a computer implemented process such that theinstructions which execute on the computer or other programmableapparatus provide processes for implementing the functions/actsspecified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.

Reference is now made to FIG. 1, which is an illustration of an exampleof a computerized mobile device hardware and software content andconfiguration according to the present invention. 100 is representationof an exemplary present art mobile device with a built-in user's bioauthentication capabilities based on gesture analysis of the user handmovements while picking up or handling the mobile devise. The presentinvention mobile devise 100 is communicating with a cellularcommunication service provider 102 through the cellular wirelessnetworks as required to operate some of the dedicated functions relatedto the present invention mobile devices local and remote securitymanagement functions. Cellular RF transceiver and Modem module 104 isrepresenting the mobile device module that supports and enables thedevice data and voice communication with the cellular service provider102 and with other cellular subscribers, the mobile device processor 106is controlling all the device various functions of management andprocessing, plus the sampling and the processing of the device movementsensors data, as required to support the execution of user'sauthentication program 124, based on his gestures and movements sampleddata. The display module 108 is a combination of a graphic/image displayscreen and a touch sensitive screen to support the user's variousinteraction and the display of the interactions results with the mobiledevice 100. The device central internal data communication bus 110supports the needs to transfer data and commands between the variousmodules of the mobile device 100. Module 120 is the mobile deviceinternal or external still and video image generator, including one ormore electronic camera units that support the triggering and imaging ofthe devise user face in order to document and authenticate the useraccording to his face details according to some embodiments of thepresent invention. Audio module 118 is including at least one microphoneand at least one speaker that enable the voice communication of the userwith other users and for the potential support of the user'sauthentication, based on his voice personal characteristics analysis.Flash memory module 116 is at least one solid-state memory modulesresident within the mobile device 100 that holds the operationalsoftware of the mobile device as well as the functional software modules122,124 and 126 that supports the invention mobile device 100 tofunction as an anti-theft protected security sensor and a multiple typesof alarms initiator. Tilt and acceleration 3D sensors module 114 is aunit resident within the invention device 100 that measures the linearacceleration on the three orthogonal axis of the device and the 3D tiltangles of the device in space. GPS module 112 is another important builtin sensor within the present invention anti-theft protected mobiledevice, wherein the GPS world coordinated device dynamic poison readingso to enable the allocation of the device in case of a theft or othersecurity problematic cases.

Module 122 is a flash memory buffer containing the device sampledmovement data of the current security evaluated user including hismeasured gesture 3D measured acceleration changes pattern and the device3D tilt changes sampled data, while being held by the current securityevaluated user. The data buffer module 122 is also connected withsub-module 123 that samples and stores the current user face imagesdigitized data, to further use it as the user's additional channel ofbio authentication sources, according to at least one of the presentinvention authentication embodiments. Module 124 is the central SWmodule in the present invention device managing the selection of optimalprocess for choosing and executing the optimal residing authenticationalgorithm, choosing one of several authentication algorithms andsignificant user identification sources options. The 124 module does theanalysis the user's gesture, based on the measured output of one or moremovement sensors measuring the 3D device movement in space. The 124module also creates the improved quality and reliability authenticationprocess while fusing together the user's measured gestures pattern datameasured by the invention mobile device using more than one movementtype sensors output, while in parallel in another embodiment of thepresent invention authentication method, wherein the method isimplementing into the authentication process the user's face patternrecognition data, as the second source of the user's bio personal data,thus enabling an optimal quality authentication process, combininggesture and face personal bio data.

Module 124 has another set of functions for execution in the cases thatthe authentication process of the current device holder is indicating anon-authenticated user case. In such a case the module 124 is creating aseries of preprogrammed alarm functions, creating audio alarm set ofsignals on the audio module 118 and displaying visual eye attractingflashing images through the display module 108. In parallel alarm datais sent from the invention mobile device to a remote cellular serviceprovider and through it to a set of the users who are the device ownergroup of pre-selected piers to notify them on the event of theft and thelocation of the theft as it is constantly read and transmitted by theGPS module 112. Software module 126 is storing and managing legitimateuser reference registration data, as required by present invention theftprotected mobile device 100 while managing the registration movementpattern of the legitimate user prepared and stored by module 126 toserve as the reference set of data while compared to the current usermeasured gestures movement data. A sub module connected, functioningwith and used by module 126, is 127 that stores and manages thelegitimate device owner face data including its face recognitionparameters and also stores and manages the registered user's piers(friends and family) face recognition data to avoid false operation ofthe device alarm functions when one of the legitimate user's piers is bymistake lifting and holding the invention theft protected mobile device.Module 128 is a SW module that manages the extraction of the sampledacceleration measurement 3D set of sensors and also in processingintegration algorithms on the acceleration measured device results datain order to achieve data related to the device velocity and position inspace, based on the acceleration data one time and two times integrationcalculation results, Module 130 is a SW module that manages theextraction of the sampled tilt measurement 3D set of sensors and also inprocessing derivatives algorithms on the tilt angles measured devicedata results, in order to achieve data related to the device angularvelocity and angular acceleration in space, based on the measured 3Dtilt angles data, one time and two times derivatives calculationresults,

Reference is now made to FIG. 2, which is a schematic illustration of astate machine wherein states reflect actions and transition arrowsrelate to external triggers which are performed with regard to a certainlayout, according to one embodiment of the present invention, whereinthis state machine is demonstrating the different change states of thepresent invention theft secured mobile device 100, and wherein theflowchart 200 is representing the initials phase of the deviseanti-theft application preparation stages and its sensors activationevents, prior to the initiation of the suspected public place userauthentication process, possibly followed by the activation of an alarmby the present invention mobile devise, according to one possibleembodiment of the present invention. Stage 202 is representing theinitiation by the user of the anti-theft device protection mode byactivating a button or a voice command, otherwise the mobile devise isnot theft protected. Stage 204 is representing a question state of twoalternatives selection, requiring the device to initiate an internaldevice GPS reading command in order to get the device embedded GPSsensor module generate an updated position of the present inventionmobile device. Alternatively if the GPS generates no reading, the deviceis then automatically transferring to communicate through the cellularconnection, or thought the embedded Wi-Fi transceiver module, with theGoogle Location Based Services center (Google maps API) providing aninternet based location services solution, which is defining the mobiledevice location data, based on most nearby Wi-Fi_33 hot-points locationtriangulations, effective and provided by Google even in low GPSreception areas like indoors. The user has to predefine upon his firsttime registration to activate the anti-theft mode in the device, whatare the coordinates of locations of safe zones for his mobile phone,where there is no risk for the device theft case. Such a safe zone canbe the device owner home, work place, close relatives' or friends homeplaces, etc. in Stage 204 the devise program is checking if it is in asafe zone and if yes then going back to the standby initial antitheftmode option. If the device location checking stage 204 shows that thedevise is out of any safe zone, then it moves to stage 206 defining thesensors reading rate at the antitheft operational initiation mode, whereit samples in a low sampling rate of about one sample reading/sec orless of the position sensors output, while choosing for that movementsensing either the acceleration sensors output sampling or the tiltsensors sampling, or both. Stage 208 is a selection state, where thesystem is doing an analysis of the device measured tilt and accelerationdynamic reading output statuses and decides, based on the measuredoutput, if the mobile device is stationary, or in a continuous movementmode when carried by its user from point 1 to point 2 during the user'snormal daily activities. If there is no change in the sensors reading itmeans that the device is out of the protected zone but is not in a usestate and then the process goes back to initial anti-theft protectionactive standby mode symbolized by stage 202. Alternatively if the deviseis being moved the state machine is shifting to stage 210 when it startschecking if there was a devise movement event that was is stopped formore than M amount of pre-defined minutes, means that the user hasarrived to a new stationary activity base location, which is not withina safe zone. This can be a café, a restaurant, a shop, or any public,work or social meeting zone where the devise user is spending some timeand when the device is at rest at that time and might be then stolen orlost. In such a case the device shifts to an alert standby mode stage212, where the devise raises the movement sensors output sampled readingrate to an alert stage higher rate in the typical range of 5-10 readingsamples/sec, in order to get better reaction time and movement alertsensitivity to any potential threat, typical to the start of a realtheft event. After shifting to stage 212 and the related execution ofthe processor shifting the device to a higher movement sensor samplingrate with a better movement detection sensing capability, the devicethen changes state to stage 214 and waits for another period of T1minutes in the typical range of 3-10 min when the sensors are giving thedevice the indication that the device is in a horizontal orientation andnot moving and then the device checks in stage 216 again if the devicehas been moved again following this waiting no movement period, if yes,the suspect of a possible theft event is getting higher and the deviceis moving to high theft suspect stage 218. If the devise was not movedagain within the predefined horizontal position state T1 minutes period,when the device has a high potential exposure to theft while resting ona table, part of the time maybe being unattended by its user in a publicplace, the device theft suspect level is then reduced and the devicesstatus shifts back to stage 206, which is the normal standby stagetypical to safeguard a device that is out of a safe zone and beingcarried by its owner. If the device was moved again in stage 216 thenthe device theft protection stage sequence moves to stage 218 where thedevice is checking that the device was uplifted from it no movementhorizontal opposition to a minimum additional M cm distance above ithorizontal rest position and along the device Z vertical axis, oralternatively to measure the time duration of the uplifting movementwhen the movement was up and for at least T2 time duration defined bythe number of seconds which is equivalent to the time duration needed tomove up the device by at least M cm with a normal hand uplifting speed,as it is needed to start the authentication only in the case that thepresent user is raising the device above its horizontal stage at state214 by at least typically 10 cm up, or any distance near to it, to avoidfalse alarm event when the user is just moving the device on the tableor tilting it to watch incoming messages or read the present time. Ifthe condition made in stage 218 is achieved then the device shifts tostage 220 where an authentication process starts upon the present userthat has lifted the device up. If the condition of stage 218 is notfulfilled then the state machine turns the device to stage 212 waitingagain for T1 minutes to start the process again.

Reference is now made to FIG. 3, which is a schematic illustration of astate machine wherein states reflect actions and transition arrowsrelate to external triggers which are performed with regard to a certainlayout, according to one embodiment of the present invention, whereinthis state machine is demonstrating the different change states of thepresent invention theft secured mobile device 100, and wherein theflowchart 300 is representing the user's authentication and possiblealarm activation phase of the devise anti-theft management SW stages andits relevant movement measuring sensors optimal activation events,according to one possible embodiment of the present invention. Stage 302is representing the start of the authentication process of the presentuser who is uplifting and holding the devise. Stage 304 is representinga state that is requiring the device to enter into the authenticationprocess and in parallel to block the device from making and executingany outside calls or data communication such as emails/SMS and internetdata exchange and enable only the receipt of incoming calls untilfinalizing the authentication process, then either clearing andaccepting the current user as the legitimate owner and reopening thephone for all types of its functions, or shutting it down completelyexcept transmitting alarm related messages. In Stage 306 the deviseprogram controls the related execution of the processor shifting thedevice to the highest possible movement sensors sampling rate oftypically, but not exclusively to 20 samples/sec, thus enabling anoptimized movement pattern detection and sensing capability, and usingthe required higher battery power consumption only for the short timeduration that is required to execute the current user severalauthentication process stages. In stage 310 the devise program isuploading from the devise memory the stored user's enrollment measureddevise owner recorded uplifting samples gesture measured movementpattern data, a file that has been done and stored in the device memoryin the initial registration phase of the device owner, as required toinitiate the antitheft protection entire procedure in the mobile device.Following to uploading from the device memory the device stored owner'srecorded registration gesture reference sampled data done in stage 310,then in the following stage 312 the device is executing the comparisonof the stored owner's uplifting gesture data to the sampled present useruplifting measured sensor's movement samples of the device upliftinggesture data. If the measured shape of the present user device movementpattern in space is matching the software based reconstructed devicemovement pattern shape in space of the device owner's originalregistration data and they match each other above a pre-definedthreshold level. Then the devise program moves to stage 316 for anotherhigher level comparison and matching test phase. In stage 316 the deviceis executing at least one out of three measured movement parameterscomparisons to the stored device owner registration related data. Thestage 316 comparison activities is comparing the uplifted device sampled3D movement data sequence in the authentication session, using one ormore of the devise acceleration, velocity and tilt angles parameters andtheir associated sampled data sequence change in time during themeasured gesture time—to the identical set of data samples done by thelegitimate device owner and recorded on the device during the initialuser's registration phase. If the matching score is high above apredefined threshold level then the device state machine is moving tostage 320 where the devise has fully authenticated the present user andidentifies him as the device original and legitimate registered user andthen it opens all the device voice and data communication channels forfree 2-way communication by the present user holding the device untilthe device is later going back to stage 202 or to stage 302, dependingon the further use of the device after the authentication is confirmedand device is free to be fully used by its present user. When thecomparison results of stage 316 show negative match results between thereference device 3D movement shape data and the present user deviceholding hand movement shape data, then the state machine moves to stage318 which is the alarm activation stage when the devise is activating apreprogrammed high level sound alarm selected by the user and inparallel a visual alarm displayed session is running on the devicescreen with pulsating lights and various user pre-use selectableflashing screen size visual alarm graphic and textual notes. When thecomparison results of stage 316 show positive high level match resultsbetween the reference 3D device movement data and the present userdevice 3D movement data, then the state machine moves to stage 314 whichis the state where the device SW and its CPU processor are comparing themeasured results of the movement velocity and/or acceleration and/ortilt match between the present user hand movements and the registeredset of user' original enrollment process movement velocity and/oracceleration and/or tilt, if the results show no match the state machinemoves to stage 318 and activates alarm as well. If comparison done onstage 314 show good match above a predefined SW driven matchingthreshold, then the device CPU move the state machine to stage 320 whereit decides that the present user is the legitimate owner of the deviceand the phone is unlocked to enable it full functions operation thedevice. In stage 318 the device operates the alarm activation stage whenthe device creates a high level sound alarm, that might be selected bythe user from a pre-recorded alarm sounds library and in parallel avisual alarm displayed session is running on the device screen withpulsating lights and various user pre-use selectable flashing screensize visual alarm graphic and textual notes. Further to stage 318 whenthe device has activated the alarm, the device operational state machineis moving to stage 320 where a SMS alarm notification is generated bythe device and sent through the cellular networks to a list of cellularnumbers of registered piers and relatives of the device user notifyingthem on the devise theft and sending to them the present GPS measureddevice position coordinated, or Google location based services of Wi-Fihot-points triangulation based reading, covering the detected presentlocation of the device and an image of the device present carrier/user,that is made automatically in a sequence of still images made by thedevice embedded camera where stage 318 is activated.

Reference is now made to FIG. 4, is a schematic illustration of a statemachine wherein states reflect actions and transition arrows relate toexternal triggers which are performed with regard to a certain layout,according to one embodiment of the present invention, wherein this statemachine is demonstrating the different change states of the presentinvention theft secured mobile device 100, and wherein the flowchart 400is representing the user's authentication and possible alarm activationphase of the devise when the authentication process is initiated wherethe device is not situated in what was predefined by its user as asecured zone where no alarm activation is required in any event. Stage402 is the starting point in the activation of the state machine of theSW activating the device according to its momentary position. In stage404 the device is checking its position coordinates to analyze anddefine if its location is in a safe zone or not, this safe locationstate is related to being in protected and trusted pre-defined user'sand his device location zone, like home, family, or work place. Iflocation is found to be in a safe zone it moves to stage 406 were thedevice is safe and waits for change in location or activation ofauthentication by the user. If the location assessment in 404 finds thedevice to be in a non-secured zone it moves to stage 408 whereautomatically it starts requesting the user/holder to do anauthentication hand movement based action and in parallel it is lockingand blocking the mobile device communication and other operationalcapabilities by the automatically firing of the procedure described inFIG. 4 related state machine steps and the related device SWconfiguration In case the device location is not a user's defined safezone.

Moving to stage 410 is automatically initiated following starting theauthentication phase in stage 408. To enable higher accuracy measurementof the device accelerometers and gyro/tilt position sensors. The deviceis then upgrading its sampling rate to the highest level possiblewithout consuming too much energy for the device battery. Typically suchsampling rate can be chosen to be 20 samples/sec or higher. In stage 412the device is initiating the highest sampling rate of the gyro based orother angular tilt sensor fast sampling mode and in parallel in stage414 the device is initiating its fast acceleration measurement samplingmode using its integrated accelerometer sensor. In stage 416 the statemachine .shows the operation wherein the device SW is uploading theoriginal user movement measured data recorded and stored doting theinitial stage of the legitimate device owner/user. In stage 418 thestate machine shows the actual authentication phase execution bycomparing the movement results of the user hand holding the device tothe stored user's hand movement recorded data collected during theuser's initial enrollment stage. Stage 420 is a decision stage of thestate machine by comparing the #D movement graph shape of the user tothe shape done and recorded in the enrollment initial phase. Ifcomparison results show a big deviation between the 3D movement recordedgraphs, then the state machines moves to stage 424 when device fullalarm display and sound generation mode is activated. If movement shapeof the enrolment data file and the present user movement data file arematching above a predefined threshold, then the state machine is movingto stage 422 wherein comparing the measured results of the movementvelocity and/or acceleration and/or tilt match between the present userhand movements and the registered set of user' original enrollmentprocess movement velocity and/or acceleration and/or tilt is done by theservice SW. If the results show no match the state machine moves tostage 424 and activates alarm as well. If comparison done on stage 422show good match above a predefined SW driven matching threshold, thenthe device CPU move the state machine state 428 wherein the device SWstating full user's authentication is approved and all the devicefunctional operations are unlocked and the user can use the phone forall its available functions. Stage 426 is activated as a finalconclusive stage of a non-legitimate user no authentication stage,wherein the user is defined by the device as a non-legitimate usertrying to still or use the device with no authorization. In such a case426 the device sends an alarm by a text message (SMS or WhatsAppmessage) to a dedicated security or remote multiple users status andsecurity monitoring center and in parallel sending a similar alarm andtheft warning message is automatically sent to other registered users orrecorded contact details of friends of the legitimate device owner.

Reference is now made to FIG. 5 is a schematic illustration of a statemachine wherein states reflect actions and transition arrows relate toexternal triggers which are performed with regard to a certain layout,according to one embodiment of the present invention, wherein this statemachine is demonstrating the different change states of the presentinvention theft secured mobile device 100, and wherein the flowchart 500is representing the user's authentication and possible alarm activationphase of the devise when the authentication process is initiated wherethe device is not situated in what was predefined by its user as asecured zone where no alarm activation is required in any event. Stage504 is the starting point in the activation of the state machine of theSW, activating the device according to its momentary position. In stage504 the device is checking its position coordinates by using itsintegrated GPS or reading the Google positioning services data toanalyze and define if its location is in a safe zone or not. This safelocation state is related to being in protected and trusted pre-defineduser's/device location zone, like home, family, or work place. Iflocation is found to be in a safe zone it moves to stage 506 were thedevice is safe open for all available device uses and waits for changein location or activation of authentication by the user. If the locationassessment in 504 finds the device to be in a non-secured zone it movesto stage 508 where automatically it starts requesting the user/holder todo an authentication by his hand movement based action and in parallelit is locking and blocking the mobile device communication and otheroperational capabilities by the automatically firing of the proceduredescribed in FIG. 4 related state machine steps and the related deviceSW configuration In case the device location is not a user's definedsafe zone. In this device operational and functional present inventionembodiment the device is also automatically activating in stage 512 thecamera embedded within the device case and facing the suspected user'sface. To enable higher accuracy measurement of the device accelerometersand gyro/tilt position sensors. The device is then upgrading itssampling rate to the highest level possible without consuming too muchenergy for the device battery. Typically such sampling rate can bechosen to be 20 samples/sec or higher. In stage 510 the device isinitiating the highest sampling rate of the gyro based or other angulartilt sensor fast sampling mode and in parallel in stage 514 the deviceis initiating its fast acceleration measurement sampling mode using itsintegrated accelerometer sensor.

In parallel, in stage 512 the device is initiation a sequence ofexposures of the integrated camera caching the user in order toaccumulated maximum visual data on the face recognition of the evaluateduser. In stage 516 the state machine .shows the operation wherein thedevice SW is uploading the original user movement measured data recordedand stored doting the initial stage of the legitimate device owner/user.In stage 518 the state machine shows the actual authentication phaseexecution by comparing the movement results of the user hand holding thedevice to the stored user's hand movement recorded data collected duringthe user's initial enrollment stage and comparing the main facialfeatures of the photographed user to those stored in the device duringenrolment. Stage 520 is a decision stage of the state machine bycomparing the 3D movement graph shape of the user to the shape done andrecorded in the enrollment initial phase. If comparison results show abig deviation between the 3D movements recorded graphs, then the statemachines moves to stage 524 when device full alarm display and soundgeneration mode is activated. If movement shape of the enrolment datafile and the present user movement data file are matching above apredefined threshold, then the state machine is moving to stage 522wherein comparing the measured face recognition main features of theusers photographed face between the present user imaged face and theregistered set of user' original enrollment process face image mainfeatures used in face recognition. If the results show no match thestate machine moves to stage 524 and activates alarm as well. Ifcomparison done on stage 522 show good match above a predefined SWdriven matching threshold, then the device CPU move the state machinestate 528 wherein the device SW stating full user's authentication isapproved and all the device functional operations are unlocked and theuser can use the phone for all its available functions. Stage 526 isactivated as a final conclusive stage of a non-legitimate user noauthentication stage, wherein the device as a non-legitimate user tryingto still or use the device with no authorization defines the user. Insuch a case 526 the device sends an alarm and the face pictures of thesuspected an authorized user by a text/image message (SMS or WhatsAppmessage) to a dedicated security or remote multiple users status andsecurity monitoring center and in parallel sending a similar alarm,suspect thief images and theft warning messages are automatically sentto other registered security supporting users, or recorded contactdetails of friends of the legitimate device owner.

Reference is now made to FIG. 6. is a flowchart of the modes ofoperation of the present invention device as part of an any theftmanagement system. In block 602 it shows the state of the device beingin a safe location mode where no alarm is generated and no priorauthentication process is requested from any user holding the device. Inblock 604, the sensors in the device are sensing that it is moving outof the geographical region defined by the device owner as a safelocation area. Following a short delay when the devise is evaluating ifthe movement is significant or not and the device stays in an non safelocation the device status is defined under block 606 were the devisealarm ready for operation mode is triggered, waiting to sense andevaluate any new event when a user will move the device while the deviceis situated in a non-safe region. In block 608 the device has sensed anymovement out of a still position and if it will not be able toauthenticate the user moving the device, it will create an alarm. Inparallel it will send via the cellular data transmission network 610 amessage to the cellular service provider servers 612, stating that thespecific user mobile device is under danger of being stolen or misused.The alarm warning message received and the cellular service providercenter will be automatically forwarded as an emergency message to acellular operator special theft management service center 616. Thecellular service provider server 612 will forward a data message withinformation about the number, owner name, location and suspected thiefface picture to a group of the user's piers that will help to catch thethief and return the device to it legitimate owner.

What is claimed is:
 1. A mobile electronic device comprising: a. atleast one movement measuring set of sensors module generating a threedimensional coordinates measured data signal representing a user's 3Dhand motion in space by creating a set of sampled data combined of asegmented movement pattern sequence of said devise, while said user uplifting moving and holding said mobile devise from its originalstationary position; b. an electronic software activated lock/unlockcircuit for enabling operation of one or more alarm and emergencyfunctions and for inhibiting communication functions of said mobileelectronic device in response to said sensors module 3D movementmeasured and sampled signal sequence analysis results; c. wherein saidlock/unlock and alarm triggered set of functions activation andoperation is executed when a user sampled data sequence of said userpreferred 3D motion pattern while lifting and holding said device, iscompared to a similar prerecorded and stored on said devise set ofsampled reference data sequence profiling the three dimensionallegitimate user's hand motion pattern in space, said prerecorded sampledreference data is recorded upon the legitimate user executing on saiddevise an initial registration motion pattern recording process; and d.said alarm is activated while an illegitimate devise user is liftingsaid device from a stationary position, wherein the measured movementdata when compared with the reference legitimate user recorded referenceID data deviates from each other by more than a predetermined threshold.2. The mobile electronic device of claim 1, wherein said at least onemovement measuring set of sensors is selected from the sensors groupincluding a three dimensional linear acceleration measuring sensor and athree dimensional angular tilt measuring sensor; and wherein said tiltsensor module is generating a three dimensional tilt angles sampledsignal vector representing said devise user's up-lifting and holdingpalm and hand maneuvering angular motion in space.
 3. The mobileelectronic device of claim 2, wherein said three dimensional linearacceleration signal vector results and said measured three dimensionaltilt angles sampled signal vector results, are fused together by using alearning and adaptable dynamically weighted factor fusion algorithmbetween said two sensors measured output, in order to enable improvedand precise analysis and identification of the exact typical personalcharacteristic space movement of said user's palm and hand, whileuplifting and holding said electronic devise; and wherein said algorithmis creating a highly reliable user's authentication mechanism to decide,while comparing to a similar reference prerecorded fused set of said twokinds of sampled user's hand motion characterizing data, if to activatesaid lock/unlock circuit for enabling operation of one or more emergencyfunctions of the mobile electronic device.
 4. The mobile electronicdevice of claim 2, wherein a. said mobile devise further comprises: anintegration module for integrating said measured acceleration signaldata with respect to time to generate a velocity signal data and adisplacement signal data; and an executable authentication process forcomparing a representation of the 3D displacement signal data and the 3Dvelocity signal data in addition to said acceleration reference data tothe reference pre-recorded motion data, said reference motion datacomprising reference 3D displacement data and reference 3D velocity datain addition to said acceleration reference data; and said integrationmodule enabling enhanced precision operation of the comparison andanalysis of said user's authentication movement analysis functionresults, while 3D moving said mobile devise if the sampledrepresentation of the displacement signal and the velocity signal andthe acceleration signal data deviates by more than a predeterminedthreshold from the reference sampled displacement set of pre-recordeddisplacement data and velocity set of prerecorded data and accelerationsignal set of the device legitimate owner prerecorded registration stagedata.
 5. The mobile electronic device of claim 2, wherein said mobiledevise further comprises: a data processing module for creating thefirst and a second derivative of the 3D measured tilt signals withrespect to time to generate an angular velocity signal and a an angularacceleration signal; and a. said mobile devise further executing alearning weighted factors fusion algorithm for creating the combined anddynamically weighted representation of the measured 3D displacementsignal, the 3D velocity signal, said 3D acceleration data, fusedtogether with a weighted representation of said measured 3D angulardata, the measured 3D angular speed signal and the 3D measured angularacceleration data, to the reference pre-recorded motion data; and b.executing an authentication process for comparing said presentlymeasured 3D movement data with said devise stored reference motion datacomprising activating said weighted factors fusion algorithm on saidreference 3D displacement data, said reference 3D velocity data, saidreference 3D acceleration data, said reference 3D angular data, saidreference 3D angular speed data and said 3D angular acceleration data;and c. further enabling operation of the lock/unlock function of saidmobile electronic device if said authentication process shows that saidmeasured and fused combined weighted representation of said user handmovement data deviates from said fused reference motion data by morethan a predetermined threshold.
 6. The mobile electronic device of claim2, wherein said reference motion data represents said device legitimateuser's required N times sampled and continually averaged pre-recorded 3Dup-lift hand movement pattern of said mobile devise, when it is movedfrom its stationary steady state position, either when said devise islying on a resting surface or taken out from a continuous and repetitivemotion movement pattern when carried on a user's body, or when it isuplifted from a carrying bag and the user's motion represent the usermomentary uplifting 3D movement pattern of said electronic device fromits present resting surface, or from its continuous and repetitivemovement pattern when said device is carried on a user's body, or whenit is uplifted from a carrying bag.
 7. The mobile electronic device ofclaim 1: further comprising: a. a dedicated secured soft key switch foruser's activation/deactivation control of said mobile electronic deviceelectronic software, which in case of a false user's authenticationactivates a lock/unlock alarm circuit enabling said operation of one ormore emergency functions of the mobile electronic device; b. wherein auser intervention free self-triggered activation of the lock/unlockfunction ready for use devise status is enabled only after an N userdefined minutes of said mobile device being in a stationary positionstatus or after an M user defined minutes, when said devise is carriedby its user in a continuous steady movement sequence of said mobiledevice; c. a display unit for indicating status of said mobileelectronic device and the display of data; and d. wherein the a movementactivated emergency alarm function of said mobile electronic deviceenabled by said lock/unlock circuit, comprises at least one functionselected from a group of said mobile devise anti-theft and loss relatedfunctions, including at least : i) setting up a highly audible audioalarm signal through said electronic device having integrated audiosignals generation capabilities; and ii) generating a display functionof said display unit indicating and alarming by display light and imageflashing and displaying fixed combination of text, graphics and icons ofthe lifting and moving event of said device by an illegal non registereduser.
 8. The mobile electronic device of claim 1, further comprising acamera module, a frame grabber and a face recognition module, whereinsaid face recognition module output data is fused together under anauthentication software module with said movement sensor module outputdata to create a more precise authentication quality of said deviselegitimate owner while said user is lifting said mobile device from itsrest position.
 9. The mobile electronic device of claim 1, furthercomprising: a. a wireless transmission module for the exchange ofwireless data signals between said devise and a remote system; b. asoftware operated self triggered switch for a suspected theft eventgenerating a control signal of said mobile electronic device forpreparing and sending said device user data and said device momentarylocation to said remote system; c. a display unit for indicating statusof said mobile electronic device and display of data received from saidremote system; and d. wherein the function of said mobile electronicdevice enabled by the activation of said lock/unlock circuit related tosaid exchange of wireless data signals between said devise and saidremote system comprising the transfer of at least: i. an alarmindication; ii. said mobile devise momentary geographical location; andiii. an emergency generated data set containing said device andlegitimate user identifying data, transmitted to said remote systemthrough a wireless digital data message.
 10. The mobile electronicdevice of claim 8, further comprising: a. a software module containing aregistered list of said devise user close group of persons and theirdirect access communication data; and b. said software module sendingsaid group of persons alert messages including said mobile devisemomentary location, in case of an emergency case, such as when saiddevise senses that a suspected theft event has occurred.
 11. The mobileelectronic device of claim 8, further comprising; a. a software moduleactivating and operating automatically said device integrated facing upcamera module together with said device lighting assistance flash lightmodules, said camera trigged to take a slide when said devise isup-lifted from its resting position by a non-authenticated user; and b.sending said non authenticated predefined size set of user's picturescreated under a serial sequence of user's face image frames andtransferring said serial sequence or a selected part of it to saidremote system and to said list of phones of said close persons. Sendingto said close friends alert messages including said suspected theftdevise momentary location, its theft alert message and said devisecontinuous sequence of pictures, in case of an emergency case like saiddevise theft has occurred.
 12. The mobile electronic device of claim 10,wherein the reference motion data that represents the device legitimateuser upon said device initial enlisting process includes said devicerecorded uplifting 3D sampled motion pattern and the user motionrepresents the present user moving the electronic device in a selectedpattern in space while uplifting the device in a typical user selectedregistration hand motion.
 13. The mobile electronic device of claim 1,operating as a user's authentication client to a remote service providersystem, said mobile electronic device further comprising: a. a wirelesstransmission system exchanging wireless data signals with a remoteservice provider system; b. an acceleration 3D movement sensor modulegenerating a 3D acceleration signal representing said user motion inspace while uplifting and holding said mobile electronic device; and c.an authentication sub-system comprising an executable authenticationprocess for executing an authentication request call generated by saidremote service provider system transmitted to said mobile electronicdevice via wireless signal; and then said mobile devise returning anauthentication confirmation created by a representation and processingin said mobile device of the measured 3D acceleration signal, back tothe remote service provider system.
 14. The mobile electronic device ofclaim 12, further comprising an integration module for integrating themeasured acceleration signal with respect to time to generate saidmobile device velocity signal in time and an associated displacementsignal; and the representation and the processing of said devisemovement signal is based on fused processing the results of the measuredacceleration signal together with the calculated velocity signal and thedisplacement signal.
 15. The mobile electronic device of claim 6,further comprising a second dedicated secured soft key switch for user'sdeactivation control of said mobile electronic device electronic alreadyactivated lock/unlock alarm circuit enabling one or more emergencyfunctions of said mobile electronic device, wherein activating saidsecond soft key enables the user to select at least one of one of thefollowing alarm deactivation functions: i. said user is requested tofeed in his pre-registered user name and password into displayed blankspaces appearing in said device screen once said second soft key isactivated by said user; and ii. a voice data processing module isactivated by said second soft key activation on said mobile device,wherein at that stage a human voice activated question is played to theuser and then waiting to be vocally shortly responded by said legitimateuser voice, wherein said activated voice question is randomly selectedfrom a set on N user's personal self-selected data set of questionsstored in said mobile device memory together with the associatedexpected user true answers response.
 16. The mobile electronic device ofclaim 1, further comprising: a. a Bluetooth transceiver datacommunication module integrated in said mobile electronic devise; b. asecond RF low radiation level sensitive Bluetooth mobile transceiverpocket size sensor device, encased in a compact package and normallyconnected to said user set of private access and door locks key holder,or installed in said user hand bag or briefcase; and c. wherein saidsecond device is activating said lock/unlock alarm triggered set offunctions in said first mobile devise, whenever the communicationdistance between said first and said second devise is larger than apre-defined distance of M meters which is indicated when the associateddetected RF communication transmitted and received signal between saidfirst and second devise if lower than a predefined threshold.
 17. Themobile electronic device of claim 15, wherein said second RF radiationlevel sensitive sensor device is a passive RFID sensor back reflectingmodulated energy coming from said first mobile devise RF transmitter andreflected back to said first mobile devise RF receiver.
 18. The mobileelectronic device of claim 1, further comprising a tilt triggeredsensitive module, wherein said electronic software activated lock/unlockcircuit for enabling operation of one or more alarm and emergencyfunctions is operating an audio location indication sound in said mobiledevise whenever said mobile devise located within a hand carried bag orbriefcase is being shaken intentionally by said user along the XY plane,while avoiding executing a significant uplifting movement along the Zaxis, in order to enable creation for the user of an audio indicationnon alarm sound that indicates to its user that said mobile devise is insaid hand bag without the user's need to open and check said bagcontent.
 19. The mobile electronic device of claim 1, further comprisingan anti-theft reference warning marker visible on an external portion ofthe housing or on the display of said mobile electronic device, whereinsaid reference marker indicating and warning potential thieves that saidmobile electronic device has a built in anti-theft module and also saidwarning marker is including a 24/7 phone number to call by the finder,in case of said mobile devise loss.
 20. A method of enabling a theftdeterrent solution or a loss case protection function for a mobileelectronic device, the method comprising: a. prompting a user todownload and register his phone in an anti-theft and loss avoidancesoftware application; and a. said user recording his personalauthentication 3D movement pattern data while uplifting his mobiledevice and holding the housing of said mobile electronic device andrecording said lifting movement pattern characteristics and repeating itN times to do motion pattern averaging ; b. detecting movement patternof said mobile electronic device within three dimensions and generatingand recording in said devise sampled movement pattern data representingthe user hand movements while creating his own 3D gesture whileuplifting his mobile device from a platform; c. enabling operation of atheft warning or a device misuse alarm generation various functions ofsaid mobile electronic device in response to the measured device 3Dmovement pattern generated signal indicating that the present usermotion deviates from said recorded reference motion data stored on saidmobile device by more than a predetermined threshold; and whereinenabling further operation of an alarm function of the mobile electronicdevice comprises: d. integrating said acceleration signal with respectto time to generate a velocity signal and a displacement signal;comparing a representation of the displacement signal and the velocitysignal to the reference motion data stored in the memory of said mobiledevice, the reference motion data also comprising reference integrateddisplacement data and velocity data; and e. enabling operation of saidtheft deterrent or a loss case protection function of said mobileelectronic device if the representation of the displacement signal andthe velocity signal deviates from said reference displacement data andvelocity data by no more than a predetermined threshold.
 21. The methodof claim 20, wherein the reference motion data represents a pre-recordedmobile device owner sampled hand gesture 3D motion data while saiddevise owner uplifting his device with a simple intuitive or a simple 3Dspecial user created hand movement pattern and the user motionrepresents a user uplifting said electronic device in a movement sensorstracked and sampled motion pattern.
 22. A mobile devices theft and losssecurity management system, implementing a portable electronic device asa user authentication platform for said devise anti-theft detection anduser's protection while said devise communicating with a remote serviceprovider security system, said system operational steps comprising: a.transmitting via a wireless signal, an authentication call registrationrequest by said electronic devise user, initiating said requestedauthentication registration process, wherein a reference authenticationdata file is generated by said electronic device legitimate owneroperating N number of times a 3D movement measurement based on readingand processing the output of a 3D movement sensors module embedded insaid mobile devise to generate a measured and further calculated saidlegitimate user's palm and devise movement pattern in space while saidsampled sensors module output data set representing said devise ownerhand movement in an uplifting natural motion of said mobile device; b.said devise sending via wireless a signal to said remote securitysystem, wherein a false authentication alarm signal is created when saiddevise if lifted by a non-legitimate user and wherein said falseauthentication alarm is created following the results in the comparisonof the measured device uplifting movement pattern set of sampledmovement signals while comparing it to an average of east two of apre-recorded uplifting set of sampled movement pattern data signalscontaining sampled signal data made by said device legitimate owner,which is stored in said device memory; and c. when said service providerreceives said wireless message containing said false authenticationalarm signal from said electronic device it sends a theft alarmnotification of said specific mobile device and it users ID details viashort message signal (SMS), emails or via the internet to a prerecordedset of phone numbers stored at said service provider memory containing apreferred relatives and friends contact list of said device legitimateowner.
 23. The system of claim 22, further comprising: a. subject to auser's false authentication event, automatically initiating andprocessing upon detecting a non-authenticated user event a set of stillface photographs followed by executing on said pictures face recognitionfunctions, while implementing for it said mobile devise integratedelectronic camera module and processor ; b. sending said processed nonauthenticated user face photography and the theft location and otherrelevant security event's data to said remote service provider securitysystem and storing it there for further recoding, processing andexecuting theft case related data security management functions; and c.avoiding operating a local alarm notification on said devise andavoiding sending such alarm to said remote service provider location ifsaid face recognition function results indicate a high match score to astored face authentication data of said device legitimate owner or ofother users combining an additional group of users which are closefamily and friends, that their face pictures are prerecorded and storedon said devise.